HI 100 - Elementary Hindi Language and Culture I
Elementary Hindi Language and Culture I is an introductory college course for developing Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) in Hindi which includes speaking and listening. Course participants will also learn the basics of reading and writing starting from Hindi alphabets. It coordinates the study of the language with culture through the use of wimba, whiteboard, and other technology. This course assumes that learner does not have any prior knowledge of the Hindi language but have basic technology knowledge.
This is a college level course and is available for 11th, 12th and college students only.
Enduring Understanding
- Students at the end of the semester will have a basic understanding of Hindi language.
- They will master Hindi alphabet and phonetic sounds necessary for the verbal and written usage of the language. Students will also be able to have a daily life conversation in Hindi, read simple Hindi text, write simple sentences in Hindi, and have basic Indian cultural knowledge.
Course Design
Using the distance learning technology available to students and instructor, this online course seeks to provide students with the necessary tools to learn Hindi language. They will recognize and appreciate diversity around them; and understand Hindi language and Indian culture as a part of the evolving global culture.
The Mother of all of the languages, Sanskrit, and its script, Devanagari makes the base of Hindi language. Through guiding, encouraging, practicing speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Hindi, the students will gain a comprehensive knowledge of Hindi and related culture. A variety of activities for vocabulary building, watching Hindi movie, reading Hindi newspaper, researching about Indian culture etc will be used.
Additional Resources Needed
Required Textbooks:
Colloquial Hindi, The Complete Course for Beginner, 2nd Edition by Tej K. Bhatia.
ISBN: 978-0-415-39527-4
Your first 100 words in Hindi, A Quick and Easy Guide to Hindi Script; Publisher McGraw Hill
ISBN 978-0-07- 146923-4
Required Technology:
- Computer that meets the minimum system requirements listed on the Live Classroom page
- Internet connection (Broadband preferred)
- Headset with microphone combination
- E-mail account (recommended)
- Printer
- Scanner or access to a fax machine (Your school should have this available for you
- DVD Player (in PC or consumer player)
- Web camera for computer (recommended
- Writing tablet (recommended)- (Genius Mouse Pen 8x6 - $50; Bamboo [Small] Pen tablet with pen only - $70 - from Amazon.com)
Content Topics
Introduction and Course overview • Greetings (noun) • Consonants
Consonants continue • Number (singular, plural) • Family and relations (gender, pronoun)
Date, time, place (noun, pronoun) • Office and school (verb) • Vowels
Visiting a friend (questioning, adverb) • Hobbies (adjectives)
Matra (making words by combining consonants and vowels) • What did you do yesterday? (past tense) • Reading comics
Words construction and analysis • What did you do today (present tense) • Reading a picture story
Simple sentence construction and translation • What is the weather going to be like tomorrow? (future tense) • Watching Hindi film and discussing
Sentence construction • Story telling Discussion about music
Transportation and information (vocabulary)
Health and food • Story telling • Research about culture
Assessments
- Attendance: 10%
- Class Participation 15%
- Homework: 25%
- 2 Tests 30% (15% each)
- Final Exam 20%